From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/0c to ... PDC20376 (FastTrak 376) related cold freezes Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:24:18 +0900 Message-ID: <44F1C732.10307@gmail.com> References: <1156440866.29118.14.camel@localhost> <44F167C0.6020903@gmail.com> <1156692788.12244.11.camel@localhost> <44F1C5C5.3030504@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.176]:1285 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932162AbWH0QYZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:24:25 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id n25so2143282pyg for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:24:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <44F1C5C5.3030504@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Soeren Sonnenburg , Linux Kernel , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Jeff Garzik [cc'ing Jeff & linux-ide, quoting whole body] Jeff, here's a EH test case for sata_promise, just in case you missed this thread. Tejun Heo wrote: > Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: >> On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 18:37 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: >>> Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> I just upgraded to using 2 sata disks (both seagate drives >>>> ST3400832AS and ST3750640AS) on this asus a7v8x on-board promise >>>> fastrak >>>> 376 (PDC20376) controller. However, as soon as I do a lot of io (cp >>>> some >>>> G of files) I get swamped in >>>> ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/0c to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 >>>> ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } >>>> ata1: error=0x0c { DriveStatusError } >>>> ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/0c to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 >>>> ata2: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } >>>> ata2: error=0x0c { DriveStatusError } >>>> ... >>> Is the system usable after these messages? >> >> Yes, however I got cold freezes from (time to time) after a while... > > I see. your drive is reporting error for some reason and libata is > failing to recover. > >>>> messages. For that it is enough to do it on a single drive or copy from >>>> drive to drive. This is on kernel 2.6.17.4, but I remember (when I was >>>> still using a single drive) this very same output to happen on 2.6.15. >>>> >>>> Can anyone translate these dubious error messages to me ? >>>> >>>> Here are more details about the system: >>>> >>>> - the sata_promise driver version 1.04 is used >>> Can you give a shot at 2.6.18-rc4? >> >> I will, though I don't see much changes in that driver... > > Ah.. right. sata_promise isn't converted to new EH yet. There's no > reason to try -rc4. Please stand by. > > Thanks. -- tejun